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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the tr

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. – Ruth Benedict

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Perception
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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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Culture
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. – James A. Garfield

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This is not Johnsons war. This is Americas war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction. – Aesop

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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: Youre hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and dont realize it. Youre speaking for the president without ever having to go to him. – Larry Speakes

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